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The Chernobyl nuclear accident; a summary analysis of its causes and consequences (1986)
| Auteur | R.Webb |
| Datum | juli 1986 |
| Classificatie | 2.34.8.10/72 (TSJERNOBYL - ONGELUK & OMGEVING - ALGEMEEN) |
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Uit de publicatie:
The Unit 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine has erupted in explosions and fire, which destroyed the reactor building and the top shield cover of the reactor, exposing the extremely radioactive and burning reactor core, and releasing into the atmosphere large amounts of radioactive substances in the form of smoke and vapor. The resulting cloud or plume of radioactivity spread over most, if not all, of Europe and beyond, and seriously contaminated Europe with radioactive fallout dust, before the reactor fire was finally smothered and the radioactivity releases stopped by the improvised dumping of sand, lead, and boron material onto the reactor and debris. The Governments in Western Europe have reacted with some radiation protection measures, such as controlling the radioactive iodine isotopes in milk, a temporary ban, then controls, on food imports from the East, and advice against eating leafy vegetables for a time. But on the whole, Governments* have declared shortly after the accident that the measured radioactive contamination levels are not dangerous; that the people can go on living as normal; that no special radiation protection or decontamination measures or restrictions on living or playing are necessary---the children can go on playing in sandboxes---and that no general controls on food contamination are necessary.
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